Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Hydra (Hya)  ·  Contains:  M 83  ·  NGC 5236  ·  Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, Mustafa Aydın
Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
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Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, Mustafa Aydın
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Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

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The human mind loves to see familiar things in shapes and patterns. That is how many deep-space objects are named.

Messier 83 Galaxy has been named the "Southern Pinwheel Galaxy" due to its shape and resemblance to the Northern Pinwheel Galaxy, Messier 101.

Southern Pinwheel is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away. It is in the direction border of the Hydra and Centaurus constellations. As one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies it is sometimes visible with a pair of binoculars.

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Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, Mustafa Aydın